<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal">Hello Friends,</p><p class="MsoNormal">My good friend Paul Wang and I have been busy organizing a salon for interesting people to present interesting work. The Salon is part of an international series of informal presentations that occur regularly in cities across the globe. It's called <a href="http://www.pecha-kucha.org">Pecha Kucha</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Pecha Kucha, which means "chit-chat" in Japanese, has an great format for informal presentations. Each presenter shows <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">20 slides X 20 seconds</span> per slide. This keeps things moving. Topics are all over the place, which keeps things interesting: Architecture, art, biology, film-making, music, green technology, trips to the Andes, you name it. You can see some great samples of past presentations at <a href="http://www.pecha-kucha.org/presentations/">http://www.pecha-kucha.org/presentations/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">The salon is informal. The venue for our first PKN (Pecha Kucha Nights), next Monday, is the back room of Marc 49 on Telegraph. There is no cost, and great food and wine is available. Children are warmly welcome. After all, interesting ideas are for everyone. </p><p class="MsoNormal">RSVPs are not necessary, but would be helpful in terms of knowing about how many folks to expect. We hope to see you there,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Jonathan and Paul</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>Presenters</b>: See <a href="http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/berkeley/0">http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/berkeley/0</a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/berkeley/0"></a></span>Date</b>: Monday, Feb. 8</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Time</b>: 7pm to 9pm</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Location</b>: Marc 49, a restaurant / wine bar on 4915 Telegraph in Oakland (<a href="http://marc49.com/">marc49.com</a>).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Cost</b>: none.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></body></html>